In plot terms, it sounds like the dire Down With Love - but forget that.
As 2016 draws to a close, it seems that we humans are in dire need of love, forgiveness and transformation.
He loved Dire Straits as a child and Interpol as a teenager, and still obsesses over the electronica of Warp Records and Jon Hopkins.
And while Janacek's First Quartet is wrapped in layers of text and subtext, being music based on literature based on music (Tolstoy's story "The Kreutzer Sonata"), it also cuts through to an almost operatic expression of the narrative, in which Janacek cannot have missed echoes of his own dire inability to express love in the real world.
Well, if that's true, the market is going to love the dire, short-term consequences that the sequestration is going to bring to many Americans closer to the ground-level of the economy.
Frontman Dave 1's perma-grinning geekiness is part of the joke, subverting slick pastiches such as Bonafied Love, which samples Dire Straits's Money for Nothing.
All three parts of this love triangle give dire performances and when the action settles on their shenanigans the film falls apart, and the early promise of an inquiry into the writing process, à la Adaptation, goes by the wayside.
'FIRE AND FOLLY' In the Music Before 1800 series, the British soprano Sophie Daneman portrays betrayed women from operas by Handel and Vivaldi in a program about the folly of love and its dire consequences.
But his portrait of a father whose joy at the discovery of his long-lost daughter is poisoned by the knowledge that she has fallen in love with his dire enemy is rendered with a delicacy and conviction that make this impossible story improbably moving.
Whether love wrought under dire circumstances lasts once those constraints are removed is an entirely different matter.
